Railway-tie.



No. 793,755. PATENTED JULY 4, 1905. M. WILUOX & H. D. RYAN. RAILWAY TIE.

.No. 793,755. PATENTED JULY 4:, 1905. M. WILUOX 6; H. D. RYAN.

RAILWAY TIE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 15, 1904.

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lf-l/ ll LWfli f-"lf'll IE SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters FatentNo. 793,755, dated July 4, 1905.

Application filed September 16, 1904. Serial No. 224,601.

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Be .it known that we, MILLER Wnmox and HENRY DAY RYAN, citizens of theUnited States, residing at Moravia, in the county of Cayuga, State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inRailway-'lies: and we do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

This invention has relation to metallic railway-ties; and it has for itsobject the provision of a strong and durable tie and one that will beelastic to a desired degree and possessing other qualities that willobviate the objections heretofore raised to the use of metallic ties.

lt is also the object of the invention to provide a chair which willoperate to secure the :rail more firmly in position than htn'etoilore.

In the drawings ilorming a portion of this specification, and in whichlike nun'ierals of reference indicate similar parts in the severalviews, Figure 1 is a top plan view showing a railway-tic provided withbraces and portions of rails. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3is an end view of the same. Fig. 4 is a bottom view of the same. Fig. 5is a detail perspective view of a rail-brace.

lin carrying out our invention we propose to employ sheet-steel ofproper thickness and to ctmstruct the tie in parts, uniting them to formthe tie in a way suitable to meet its needs.

o show in the drawings forming a part of this SPGCl'llCfttlOl') anddescribe a tie and rail chair embodying our invention at the same time.

We recognize the fact that the form and arrangement of parts may bevaried and our invention may still be embodied therein. VVe will,however, for the sake of clearness and brevity conline our descriptionquite closely to the form shown, which fully cmbodies the invention.

In the drawings the tie is shown as composed of two parts ofsheet-steel, the (livisional line running longitudinally of the tie. Theupper face .10 for the reception of the chair ill is. made flat, andthis flat portion, is

supported centrally and longitudinally by a vertical web 12, which iscormected with and forms a part of the hollow base .13. The margin ofthe meeting portions of the base are slit, as at 141-, and the ends ofclips .15 are passed through said slits and bent over and pressed orriveted down to hold the two edges together, and the webs l2 are rivetedtogether by rivets it passed through the matching holes made through theweb, and these latter rivets may be as frequent as thought necessary. i

While the bottom of the tie is shown as rounded, itniay be made quitellat in some, if not all, cases.

The chair 11 is formed from two pieces of sheet-steel, the base 17 ofeach piece being made llat, so as to be bolted, as at 15, to the [lattop of the tie, and, each piece at its inner edge bent upwardly andinward, as at 19, so as to lit upon the llange forming the base of therail. (Not shown.) In addition to this a vertically-arranged extension20 at the middle of the base l7 of each piece is made at its inner edgeto bear against the opposite side of the web of the rail forsubstantially its entire width. To further stay the chair and maintainit in place, we rivet a plate 21 on the end of the tie, with its inneredge bent to overlap the outer edge of the base 17, as shown. The wholeforms a durable and safe chair for sheet-metal ties and one that iscalculated to hold the rails safely in place.

The feature of elasticity of the tie hereinbefore referred to isacquired by formation of the tie of sheet metal and giving it the shapeillustrated, it being of course understood that the tie will ofnecessity be slightly flattened when weight is applied thereto and willreturn when the weight is removed.

What is claimed is- 1. A sheet-metal tie for railways constructed of twoparts, each part having a flat upper face, a vertical web and anenlarged bulging base, the two parts being arranged. together and theedges of the base united by clips and rivets or bolts binding togetherthe webs of the two parts.

2. A sheetmetal tie for railways construeted of two parts, each parthaving a flat upper face, a vertical web, and an enlarged.

bulging base, the two parts being arranged l 4. An elasticmetallichailwaytie formed together and the edges of the base united byof two oppositely-curved plates united along clips and rivets or boltsbinding together the their longitudinal edges and rail-securing I 5 websof the two parts combined with a chair means fastened to the upperportion of the 5 formed from sheet metal and bolted on the tie abovesaid meeting edges.

upper flat face, as described and shown. In testimony whereof we affixour signa- A sheet-metal tie having an upper flat tures in presence oftwo Witnesses. face-plate, a vertical web composed of two MILLER\VILCOX. thicknesses of metal below the face-plate, H. DAY RYAN. 10 andan enlarged hollow base, all of the parts WVitnesscs:

being securely connected, substantially as A. E. FIELDS.

set forth. G150. B. CLAY

